This work was built from a study developed with the intent of assessing the feasibility of teaching apprenticeship as an alternative to the practice of teaching. The targets of the study were graduate students enrolled in teaching apprenticeship during 2010 at a federal University in the state of Minas Gerais. The work was developed based on the method of case studies as applied to a graduate program in Management, and data gathering was made through a single enquiry about the meaning attributed by graduate students to the development of the apprenticeship period. Content analysis was used to allow interpretation of the data collected. Through the perceptions of graduate students, the contributions, meaning and motivations to conduct teaching apprenticeship periods were highlighted. In so doing, it was possible to identify the need to adapt the discipline in practical terms so as to stimulate greater engagement of all agents, and in order that results produced collectively be better and more effective. Lastly, it was possible to observe that the process of the formation of teachers in stricto sensu graduate programs requires a (re)integration between theory and practice so that engaging in teaching apprenticeship can be an interesting way to promote the practice of teaching by graduate students. Additionally, for those more involved with research and with the technical reading of academic texts a higher motivation mentioned was the reduction of the distance experienced between theory and practice.
Teaching apprenticeship; Professional formation; Theory and practice
